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Daniela Francesca Virdis (she/her) (PhD, University of Genoa, Italy) is an Associate Professor of English Language and Translation at the University of Cagliari, Italy; she has received her Abilitazione Scientifica Nazionale (National Scientific Qualification) as Full Professor of English and Anglo-American Language, Literature and Culture. She teaches Language & Gender, Stylistics, Pragmatics and Structural Grammar in First and Master’s Degree Courses.
She is a member of the International Ecolinguistics Association (IEA) Advisory Group and the Erasmus Programme Academic Coordinator for the Faculty of Humanities of the University of Cagliari. She was the Secretary of Poetics And Linguistics Association (PALA).
She is the author of the books Ecological Stylistics: Ecostylistic Approaches to Discourses of Nature, the Environment and Sustainability (2022) and Serialised Gender: A Linguistic Analysis of Femininities in Contemporary TV Series and Media (2012), which was awarded the Italian Association of English Studies (AIA) Book Prize 2013 for a monograph in the field of English Language and Linguistics.
She is the editor of Ecostylistics: Texts, Methodologies and Approaches, a special issue of the Journal of World Languages (2022), and a co-editor of the books Language in Place: Stylistic Perspectives on Landscape, Place and Environment (2021) and The Stylistics of Landscapes, the Landscapes of Stylistics (2017).
She is also the author of the book “A spectacle of strangeness”: Diavoli e Streghe nel Teatro Giacomiano (Devils and Witches in the Jacobean Theatre, 2004), the author and editor of the Italian translation of B. Jonson’s The Devil Is an Ass (2003), and a co-editor of the volume Ricerca e Didattica nei Centri Linguistici di Ateneo (Research and Language Teaching in University Language Centres, 2006).
She has also published widely on language & sexuality in Victorian erotica, national-ethnic stereotypes, and Late Modern fictional and non-fictional prose from a historical pragmatic perspective. She is currently researching ecostylistics and metaphor theory.

ORCID ID https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2819-3847

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Employment (1)

University of Cagliari: Cagliari, IT

Associate Professor of English Language and Translation (Department of Humanities, Languages and Heritage)
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Education and qualifications (1)

University of Genoa: Genoa, Liguria, IT

2000-03-01 to 2003-06-20 | Doctorate in English Studies (Faculty of Foreign Languages and Literature)
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Professional activities (3)

IEA (International Ecolinguistics Association): International association, GB

2017-01 to present | Member of the Steering Group of IEA (International Ecolinguistics Association) as subject representative for Stylistics
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PALA (Poetics And Linguistics Association): International association, GB

2014-07 to 2020-10 | Member of the PALA (Poetics And Linguistics Association) Committee as PALA Secretary, elected unopposed for two terms of office (second term extended)
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AIA (Italian Association of English Studies): National association, IT

2013-09 | AIA (Italian Association of English Studies) Book Prize 2013 for a monograph in the field of English Language and Linguistics
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Funding (1)

NUOVE PROSPETTIVE NELLA RICERCA SULLE METAFORE

2015-01-01 to 2018-01-01 | Grant
Ministry of Education, Universities and Research (Rome, IT)
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Quaderni del CIRM Centro Interuniversitario di Ricerca sulle Metafore

2024 | Other
Part of ISBN: 9788892959460
Contributors: Conoscenti, M.; Contini, A.; Druetta, R.; Gola, E.; Orlandi, A.; Paissa, P.; Rizzato, I.; Rossi, M.; Virdis, DANIELA FRANCESCA
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‘Biodiversity’ in Extinction Rebellion’s words: an ecostylistic examination of a beneficial text

Cogent Arts & Humanities
2024-12-31 | Journal article
Contributors: Daniela Francesca Virdis
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China Metaphors: An Investigation of the Metaphorical Strategies in The Country Wife’s China Scene

SKENÈ. JOURNAL OF THEATRE AND DRAMA STUDIES
2023 | Journal article
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https://skenejournal.skeneproject.it/index.php/JTDS/home

Contributors: Virdis, DANIELA FRANCESCA
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Per una definizione benefica di ‘sostenibilità’: Indagine ecostilistica di testi e strategie

Media, Linguaggi, Comunicazione: Scenari del Presente e del Futuro
2023 | Book chapter
Part of ISBN: 9788833120997
Contributors: Virdis, DANIELA FRANCESCA; Mamusa, Eleonora
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Quaderni del CIRM Centro Interuniversitario di Ricerca sulle Metafore: Numero 2

2023 | Other
Part of ISBN: 9788892956834
Contributors: Conoscenti, M.; Contini, A.; Druetta, R.; Gola, E.; Orlandi, A.; Paissa, P.; Rizzato, I.; Rossi, M.; Virdis, DANIELA FRANCESCA
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Quaderni del CIRM. Centro Interuniversitario di Ricerca sulle Metafore: Numero 3

2023 | Other
Part of ISBN: 9788892958418
Contributors: Conoscenti, M.; Contini, Annamaria; Druetta, R.; Gola, Elisabetta; Orlandi, A.; Paissa, P.; Rizzato, I.; Rossi, Micaela; Virdis, DANIELA FRANCESCA
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Questioni ambientaliste e paesaggistiche ottocentesche: La natura vista con gli occhi di Alexander von Humboldt e John Ruskin

Raccontare il mondo, descrivere la natura: L’opera di Alexander von Humboldt tra letteratura e scienza
2023 | Book chapter
Part of ISBN: 9788833120874
Contributors: Virdis, DANIELA FRANCESCA; Cadeddu, Manuel
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Ecological Stylistics: Ecostylistic Approaches to Discourses of Nature, the Environment and Sustainability

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Ecostylistics: Texts, Methodologies and Approaches, special issue of the Journal of World Languages 8.3

JOURNAL OF WORLD LANGUAGES
2022 | Other
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https://www.degruyter.com/journal/key/jwl/8/3/html

Contributors: Virdis, Daniela Francesca
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‘Water is our element’: Metaphors of the Sea and Water in Margaret Atwood’s The Penelopiad

TICONTRE
2022 | Journal article
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https://teseo.unitn.it/ticontre/article/view/2319

Contributors: Fois, Eleonora; Virdis, DANIELA FRANCESCA
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Ecostylistics: Texts, methodologies and approaches

Journal of World Languages
2022-12-16 | Journal article
Part of ISSN: 2169-8260
Contributors: Daniela Francesca Virdis
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Opposition in ecological discourse: An ecostylistic scrutiny of speakGreen ecological posts

Journal of World Languages
2022-12-16 | Journal article
Part of ISSN: 2169-8260
Contributors: Daniela Francesca Virdis
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Environmental issues in the Victorian era: an ecostylistic examination of metaphor and framing in Ruskin’s The Storm-Cloud of the Nineteenth Century

Text & Talk
2022-07-26 | Journal article
Contributors: Daniela Francesca Virdis
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Exploring Feminized Landscapes in Victorian Erotica: Ecocriticism Meets Sociology

Thinking Out of the Box in Literary and Cultural Studies
2021 | Book chapter
Part of ISBN: 9788869382574
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Intertestualità e sostenibilità: L’insegnamento dell’azione per il clima e degli obiettivi di sviluppo sostenibile

Intertextuality: Intermixing Genres, Languages and Texts
2021 | Book chapter
Part of ISBN: 9788835120308
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Language in place. Stylistic perspectives on landscape, place and environment

2021 | Other
Part of ISBN: 9789027260161
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Normal Non-Fluency and Verbatim Theatre: A Linguistic and Performative Analysis

SKENÈ. JOURNAL OF THEATRE AND DRAMA STUDIES
2021 | Journal article
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Quaderni del CIRM Centro Interuniversitario di Ricerca sulle Metafore: Numero 1

2021 | Other
Part of ISBN: 9788892953499
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Stereotyping Scotland: Groundskeeper Willie’s illocutionary acts in The Simpsons

Crossroads. A Journal of English Studies
2021 | Journal article
Contributors: Daniela Francesca Virdis
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“Presentazione” a Quaderni del CIRM Centro Interuniversitario di Ricerca sulle Metafore: Numero 1

Quaderni del CIRM Centro Interuniversitario di Ricerca sulle Metafore: Numero 1
2021 | Book chapter
Part of ISBN: 9788892953499
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Chapter 1. Introduction

2021-04-15 | Book chapter
Contributors: Daniela Francesca Virdis; Elisabetta Zurru; Ernestine Lahey
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Chapter 10. “She enjoys being stroked”, “They are affectionate, lively and interactive boys”

2021-04-15 | Book chapter
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"Lay down branch roads, provide town sites, build barracks": A Practical Stylistic Investigation of H. Clarke’s Colonization, Defence, and Railways in Our Indian Empire (1857)

LINGUAE &
2020 | Journal article
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Interpersonal Metadiscourse in Wordsworth’s “Preface” to Lyrical Ballads

Worlds of Words: Complexity, Creativity, and Conventionality in English Language, Literature and Culture. Vol. I: Language
2019 | Book chapter
Part of ISBN: 9788833392448
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Sexualised Landscapes and Gentry Masculinity in Victorian Scenery: An Ecostylistic Examination of a Pornographic Novel from the Magazine The Pearl

JOURNAL OF LITERARY SEMANTICS
2019 | Journal article
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Interactive Practices and Identity Construction in W. Wordsworth’s “Preface” to Lyrical Ballads (1800): A Historical Pragmatic Scrutiny

STUDII DE LINGVISTICA
2017 | Journal article
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Introduction

The Stylistics of Landscapes, the Landscapes of Stylistics
2017 | Book chapter
Part of ISBN: 9789027200020
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Representing Postfeminist Female Characters in the Contemporary Mediascape: The Discursive Function of Irony

VERBUM
2017 | Journal article
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The Stylistics of Landscapes, the Landscapes of Stylistics

2017 | Other
Part of ISBN: 9789027200020
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Introduction

2017-12-07 | Book chapter
Contributors: John Douthwaite; Daniela Francesca Virdis; Elisabetta Zurru
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From Inarticulacy to Art: Normal Non-Fluencies in Verbatim Theatre

ANALELE UNIVERSITATII DIN ORADEA. SERIA FILOLOGIE, FASCICULA LIMBA SI LITERATURA ROMANA
2016 | Journal article
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Interactive Strategies in Victorian Academic Discourse: Citation in J. Ruskin’s The Storm-Cloud of the Nineteenth Century (1884)

STUDIES IN VARIATION, CONTACTS AND CHANGE IN ENGLISH
2016 | Journal article
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https://varieng.helsinki.fi/series/volumes/17/virdis/

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Mediterranean Landscapes as Heritage: An Ecostylistic Analysis of a Sardinian Tourism Website

Mediterranean Heritage in Transit. (Mis-)Representations via English
2016 | Book chapter
Part of ISBN: 9781443887168
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British stereotypes in two humorous collections of postcards: a stylistic examination

RHESIS
2015 | Journal article
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Eroticising Female and Male Bodies: A Linguistic Investigation of a Pornographic Novel from the Victorian Magazine The Pearl

PORN STUDIES
2015 | Journal article
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Hybrid Animals and Hybridizing Representational Strategies in R. Bach’s Jonathan Livingston Seagull: A Functional Grammatical Investigation

Tiere – Texte – Transformationen. Kritische Perspektiven der Human-Animal Studies
2015 | Book chapter
Part of ISBN: 9783837628739
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Dalla Scozia alla Sardegna: stereotipi e tratti bandiera di Groundskeeper Willie/Willie il giardiniere dei Simpson

Dalla Sardegna all’Europa: Lingue e letterature regionali
2014 | Book chapter
Part of ISBN: 9788820458485
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When American Surgery Speaks Spanish: A Linguistic Analysis of a Doctor-Patient Interview in FX's Nip/Tuck

American English(es): Linguistic and Socio-Cultural Perspectives
2013 | Book chapter
Part of ISBN: 9781443847483
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De-Constructing Stereotypical Discourse: A Linguistic Analysis of the Characters of Foreign Language Learners in British Humorous Postcards

Regenerating Communities, Territories, Voices: Memory and Vision: Proceedings of the 25th AIA Conference: Volume II, L’Aquila (Italy), 15-17 September 2011
2012 | Other
Part of ISBN: 9788820757243
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Friendliness, Aggressiveness and Coarseness: Scottish Groundskeeper Willie’s Linguistic Features in The Simpsons

NAWA
2012 | Journal article
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Ideological Landscapes in G. O. Trevelyan’s ‘An Indian Railway’: An Ecostylistic Analysis

Ekologiya yazyka na perekrestke nauk: materialy 2-y mezhdunarodnoy nauchnoy konferentsii: v 2-h chastyah: Ch. 1 (Ecology of Language at the Crossroads of Sciences: Proceedings of the 2nd International Scientific Conference in 2 Volumes: Volume 1)
2012 | Other
Part of ISBN: 9785400006661
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Interactive Dialogue Sequences in The Romance of Lust (1873-1876)

Historical Perspectives on Forms of English Dialogue
2012 | Book chapter
Part of ISBN: 9788820413842
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Serialised Gender: A Linguistic Analysis of Femininities in Contemporary TV Series and Media (“Lagado Studi”, volume no. 7, General Editors G. Sertoli and F. Cleto), awarded the AIA (Italian Association of English Studies) Book Prize 2013 for a monograph in the field of English Language and Linguistics

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Changing Media Landscapes, Innovative Female Characters: Julie’s Politeness Strategies in ABC’s Desperate Housewives

Challenges for the 21st Century: Dilemmas, Ambiguities, Directions: Papers from the 24th AIA Conference: Volume II: Language Studies
2011 | Other
Part of ISBN: 9788890396984
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Spagnolo e inglese nella serie televisiva Nip/Tuck: Un approccio didattico

Una scuola che parla: Atti del Convegno ANILS: Cagliari, 5-6 Novembre 2009
2011 | Other
Part of ISBN: 9788854836778
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Marge’s Private Conflict in The Simpsons: A Linguistic Analysis

ANGLOPHONIA
2010 | Journal article
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Sexuality, Masculinities & Co. in the Limericks from the Victorian Erotic Magazine The Pearl

TEXTUS
2010 | Journal article
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George Gifford’s A Discourse of the Subtill Practises of Devills by Witches and Sorcerers: Female Figures through Corpus Stylistics

Corpora, Discorso e Stile – Corpora, Discourse & Style
2009 | Book chapter
Part of ISBN: 9788854829633
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Niccolò Goes to America: Ideology and/through Lexicon in a 1900s US Reader

Forms of migration – Migration of forms: Language Studies: 23rd AIA Conference
2009 | Other
Part of ISBN: 9788861940574
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Polite Interaction or Cooperative Interaction? Bree’s Conversational Style in ABC’s Desperate Housewives

BRITISH AND AMERICAN STUDIES
2009 | Journal article
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